Populism

With projections of climate science now indisputable, many of Europe’s right-wing populist parties are abandoning responses of dismissal and denial in favour of a very different approach. The threat of climate change is increasingly appropriated and reframed to suit a nationalist political agenda.

Prime Minister Janez Janša is locked in a war with imagined enemies, fuelled by conspiracies and a distorted view of history.

Torrential online abuse is reproducing structural inequalities and weakening democracy.

It is time to let go of the assumption that democracy always leads to progressive outcomes.

Ece Temelkuran warns of the signs of creeping authoritarianism.

Until 2019, Portugal seemed unaffected by the right-wing populism on the rise elsewhere in Europe.

The Hungarian government has attempted to exploit the pandemic for its own ends – at great cost to the population.

From attacking social partners to women’s rights, Covid-19 has been a catalyst for Law and Justice’s autocratic tendencies.

While the pandemic has exposed different systems of governance, it offers compelling reasons to revive the welfare state.

Reflections from a landmark conference at Lund University which examined the political ecology of the far right, and why progressives must be awake to this.